Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin is lead the charge on Friday in an effort to stop the growing number of crimes that are going viral on Facebook Live. Commissioner Boykin and others are asking the social media giant to shut Facebook Live down for 30 days until technology is put in place to prevent the crimes from going viral.

Gunfire rang out at the corner of Central and Corcoran in Chicago’s south Austin neighborhood Friday afternoon. Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin said he counted 30 rounds of ammunition on the ground.
“I saw it. It was a war zone,” Boykin said.

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin called for help combating Chicago violence Wednesday in a letter sent to newly sworn in Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking for more federal money and boots on the ground.

“This poverty, this high unemployment, this hopelessness is what is driving the violence in the streets of Chicago and we must all come together and work together for a common goal and that is to bring communities up, to revitalize these communities,” said Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin.